Friday, March 11, 2011

Long week

I haven't updated in a couple of days, but I haven't been unproductive. I've moved down to using small brushes the thickness of my thumb, and in many cases even smaller as I continue to make smaller and smaller color choices. I'm using a old masters secret painting medium called meglip in order the layer colors on top of each other. The benefit of the meglip is that it's transparent so that the under layer of color still comes through. The result is colors that really can't be accurately shown or captured with photos as the light goes through the paint and bounces around he various layers; absorbing more color and giving the painting a rich, deep glow. It's resulting in a painting that looks as bright as my computer monitor! Unfortunately, my camera is unable to capture the subtle colors and blows out the contrast, but hopefully they bring the point across.

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